Re: -s flag is broken

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: http://www.cas.org/~lvirden (Larry W. Virden, x2487)
 > Date: Mon  Oct 28, 12:12pm
 >
 > Hmm - I see one problem - trn doesn't seem to be using the TRNMACRO variable.
 >  $ echo $TRNMACRO
 > /tmp/trnkill
 > csa21s4m (97) $ trn +A -q -s -T -t -x +X ++
 > trn 4!
 > Connecting to news.cas.org...Done.
 > control: 1 article
 > comp.lang.tcl: 37 articles
 > comp.lang.perl.tk: 1 article
 > news.announce.newusers: 1 article
 > cmh.jobs: 33 articles
 > etc.
 > 
 > ====   1 in oh.newsadmin -- read? [ynq] &&
 > 
 > Macros:
 > ^U      %(%m=t?+u:u)
 > ^[OM+3  ^C
 > ^[[M+3  ^C
 > *I      $/%"^JMessage id? "/rHmessage-id:^J
 > *L      w|do-format|less\n
 > U       %(%m=[aenp]?U+:U)
 > `       %(%m=[aept]?^M:`)
 > u       %(%m=[aenp]?U:u)
 > 
 > See that 1) the trnkill macros are not appearing in the list of defined macros,
 > 2) the default macros ARE appearing, even though I indicated a +A to tell trn not 
 > to do this.  Interestingly enough, these macros ARE defined in a $HOME/.trnmac
 > file.
 > 
 > When I use a -ETRNMACRO=/tmp/trnkill, that works a bit:
 > ====   1 in oh.newsadmin -- read? [ynq] &&
 > 
 > Macros:
 > ^J      ^(z^)
 > ^M      ^(z^)
 > ^[OM+3  ^C
 > ^[[M+3  ^C
 > p       %`echo %m`
 > z       %(%m=[nf]?.q^J:n)^(z^)
 > 
 > however, there is still the two escape sequences being created.
 > 
 > It looks like with that -E flag, things are working better.  Is
 > this a bug in trn 4.0?
 > -- 
 > Larry W. Virden                 INET: http://www.cas.org/~lvirden
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 > 


Why is my trnkill working?  I am using trn 4.0 patchlevel 42, I believe.  So,
I'm a little out of date.  I haven't checked which macros are actually getting
to be defined.  Also, do you set DOTDIR at all?  Just curious...